Homayun v. Portobello Residental Owners Assn.
Zahra and Mohamad Homayun, individually and doing business as Za Zoos, a restaurant and nightclub, sued the Portobello Residential Owners Association (the Association), Association President Raul Axtle, and Jay Adams for defamation and other causes of action arising from a dispute over Za Zoos operation. Defendants filed anti-SLAPP motions to strike the complaint (Code Civ. Proc., 425.16),[1] which were granted as to Adams, and partially granted as to the Association and Axtle, and defendants were awarded attorney fees for prevailing on the motions. In these appeals, plaintiffs contest the orders on the anti-SLAPP and fee motions. The allegations in the stricken causes of action involved precisely the sort of conduct the anti-SLAPP law was designed to protect, plaintiffs procedural argument with the respect to the anti-SLAPP motions is untenable, and the fee awards were within the courts discretion. Court therefore affirm the orders.
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